No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.